Heating, cooking, and washing apparatus.



PAT'ENTED SEPT. 24,1307.

L. DE VAUX. HEATING, COOKING, AND WASHING APPARATUS.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS DE VAUX, OF ALBERT LEA, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-FOURTH TO JOHN C. ROGERS AND ONE-FOURTH TO JOHN P. GREENE, OF ALBERT LEA, MINNESOTA.

HEATING, COOKING, AND WASHING APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 24, 1907.

Application filed March 16,1906. Serial No. 306,434.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, LOUIS DE VAUX, a citizen of the United States, residing at Albert Lea, in the county of Freeborn and State of Minnesota, have invented a new and useful Heating, Cooking, and Washing Apparatus,

of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to stoves adapted for heating and cooking purposes, well as for the heating of sad irons, baking, and for other uses; the same being specially adapted to be used in connection with a washing apparatus comprising a boiler and a drum rotatable in said boiler; the general object of the invention being to provide a device which may be used with a considerable saving of fuel and of labor.

Other objects of the invention are to simplify and improve the construction and operation of this class of devices.

With these and other ends in view, which will readily appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the improved construction and novel arrangement and combination of parts, which will be hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings has been illustrated a simple and preferred form of the invention; it being, however, understood that no limitation is necessarily made to the precise structural details therein exhibited, but that changes, alterations and modifications within the scope of the invention may be made, when desired.

In the drawings, Figure l is a vertical sectional view of a combined stove and washing apparatus constructed in accordance with the principles of the invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view taken at right angles to Fig. 1, but showing, instead of the washing apparatus, a cooking and baking chamber which is utilized also for the heating of sad irons. Fig. 3 is a sectional detail view showing the cooking and baking chamber detached.

Corresponding parts in the several figures are indicated throughout by similar characters of reference.

The stove casing 1 consists of a rectangular bottomless box of sheet metal or other suitable material, which is slightly elevated above the floor by means of legs or supports 2, 2, so that air to support combustion may be admitted beneath the lower edges of the box. The stove may be adapted for the consumption of gas, gasolene vapor, or other fluid; in the drawings a gasolene stove has been shown, including the supply tank 3,

conducting pipe 4, and burner supporting branch pipe 5, which latter extends through and is supported in the end walls of the box or casing. The pipe 5 carries the burners 6 which are of ordinary construction and of which any desired number may be used.

The box or casing 1 is provided with interiorly disposed brackets 7 located a suitable distance above the burners and adapted to support a boiler, oven, or other structure which is to be directly exposed to the heat of the burners. Thus, in Fig. 1 of the drawings, a boiler 8 has been shown resting upon the brackets 7, said boiler being of less area in horizontal section than the casing 1, so that there will be a space 9 left between the walls of the boiler and those of the casing, this space being intended for the free passage of the products of combustion which will thus be utilized in heating the boiler and the contents of the latter. The boiler 8 is preierably made of such a height that it will extend slightly above the upper edges of the walls of the casing, and it is provided with a semi-cylindrical lid or cover 10, detachably supported theron, and provided with handles 11 whereby it may be conveniently manipulated.

Supported for rotation within the boiler 8 is a cylindrical drum 12 having a suitable operating crank or handle whereby it may be rotated or oscillated; said drum being composed of a body portion 14 and a lid portion 16 hingcdly connected with each other and adapted to be secured in closed relation. The drum is provided at intervals with slits 17 at the edges of which are formed inturned flanges l8 constituting agitators and serving also when the drum is being rotated to elevate the water contained in the boiler and to pour it from an elevation over the clothes contained in the drum. .The latter is also provided at intervals with apertures or perforations 19 to provide for the free circulation of water and suds. The end walls of the body portion of the drum are provided with diametrically disposed guide flanges 20, 20 facing each other and serving to support a slidable and removable partition member B, the detailed construction of which forms no part of the present invention. The partition memher is composed of a pair of plates 21, spaced apart and connected by means of braces 22, and having flaring ends 23 and intermediate outwardly bulged portions 24 connected by a cross piece 25 which is preferably placed in an oblique position, as will be best seen in Fig. 1 of the drawings, and adjacent to which the bulged portions of the plates are provided with perforations or apertures 26. This partition device is removably supported upon the flanges 20 which it slidably engages, as will be readily understood. When this partition member is placed in position within the drum, as seen in Fig. 1, the articles that are to be washed may be placed within the drum at either side of the partition, the drum being partly immersed in the boiler 8, which latter is partially filled with suds. The lid or cover 10 is then placed in position; the boiler being supported upon the brackets 7 of the stove casing. The suds within the boiler will be speedily heated to the desired temperature, and while in a heat ed condition, the drum may be rotated or oscillated by means of the crank or handle with which it is provided. The presence of the partition B will prevent the clothes from being rolled into a compact ball or wad; especially if the direction of rotation of the drum is occasionally reversed. The hot suds will be elevated by the bucket-like projections formed by the flanges l8 adjacent to the slits 17 and will be freely discharged over the clothes contained within the drum; the slits 17 and the apertures 19 providing for the free circulation of the water or suds. When the drum is being rotated, water or suds will also be elevated by the bucket-like ends of the partition B which are separated by the cross piece 25, such water or suds being discharged onto the clothes through the apertures 26, which are disposed adjacent to the lower ends of the sides of the obliquely disposed cross piece 25 which are temporarily uppermost.

When the washing apparatus is not in use, it may be lifted from the stove casing by means of handles 27 at the ends of the boiler, and in place of the latter a casing 30 may be supported upon the brackets 7 as will be seen in Fig. 2 of the drawings. The casing 30, like the boiler 8, is of less horizontal sectional area than the stove casing, so that a vacant space 31 will be left between the walls of the latter and the walls of the casing 30. The latter consists of a rectangular sheet metal box, the bottom of which isprovided with apertures, as 32, disposed directly above the burners G deflectors, as 33, being supported above the apertures 32 by means of legs or spacing members 34. Within the casing 30 is supported a horizontal partition 35 having legs 36 whereby it is raised above the deflectors 35; said partition being also provided with apertures 37 to provide for the free circulation of heated air. A lid or cover 38 having a handle 39 is provided for the casing 30 and the partition 35 within the latter is provided with handles 40 whereby it may be conveniently manipulated.

The front wall of the stove casing l is provided with a hinged door 41 to enable access to the burners to be had; said door being preferably provided with one or more sight apertures, as 42, covered with mica or other suitable transparent and refractory material.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the drawings hereto annexed, the operation and advantages of this invention will be readily understood by those skilled in the art to which it appertains. The stove casing is of such dimensions as to provide a considerable radiating surface, and it will therefore be efficient for the purpose of heating the apartment where it is being used. Air to support combustion is freely admitted beneath the lower edges of the walls of the casing, and this air, becoming heated, ascends through the spaces between the walls of the casing and those of the boiler 8 or box 30, as the case may be, thus greatly assisting in heating such boiler or box, which latter constitutes a cooking chamber which may be utilized for baking, for the heating of sad irons, and for a variety of purposes. When used as a baking oven, the cover 38 is necessary; while the box is being utilized for ordinary cooking purposes, said cover or lid may be dispensed with. It is also evident that the partition 35 may at times be dispensed with; and, in fact, the box 30 may be bodily removed when it shall be desired to place cooking vessels directly over the burners, when such cooking vessels may be suspended as from sticks laid crosswise upon the upper edges of the walls of the stove casing.

An important feature of the present invention is that while the boiler 8 is in use, the box or receptacle 30 may be nested in the lower part of the stove casing, and there be accommodated out of the way, as will be seen in Fig. 1 of the drawings; this also shows how the parts of the device may be conveniently nested together for transportation or storage in a convenient and compact manner.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is:

1. A sheet metal stove casing comprising a box like structure open at both top and bottom, and of uniform diameter, supporting legs for maintaining the bottom of the casing above the level of the floor, a burner carrying tube having its opposite ends passing through openings in the end walls of the casing and forming a brace for the casing and asupport for the burners, a plurality of spaced brackets secured to the inner walls of the casing and projecting inward therefrom at a point above the level of the burner, and a removable vessel of less horizontal area than the casing, said vessel being supported by the brackets in a position to leave a clear space between all of the vertical walls of the vessel and the casing.

A rectangular bottomless stove casing, a burner carrying fuel pipe extending through and supported by the walls of the casing, supporting brackets secured in teriorly upon the walls above the burners, a rectangular receptacle adapted to be supported upon said brackets and having apertures registering with the burners, deflectors supported above the apertures, a perforated partition supported above the deflectors, and a lid for the receptacle.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I

have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

LOUIS DE VAUX.

Witnesses .TonN P. GREENE, Mxnnr. E. Conn. 

